Posts Tagged ‘China’

Newer Entries

Baidu, China’s No.1 Search Engine Clinched Second Spot Worldwide.

9, Aug 2009

<br /><br /><br /><br /> Not surprisingly, the Nasdaq-listed Chinese search giant has clinched the second spot, according to a report released by comScore a US-based Internet marketing research company. The leading search engine in China has topped Yahoo, grabbing a search engine market share of 6.9% with a gain of half of a percentage [...]

Variable Pricing and Brand Destruction.

8, Aug 2009

A former New York Times editor recently wrote a full-page article for Forbes magazine advocating “variable pricing” for art museums. “Art institution directors should start thinking like airline yield managers,” was the subhead of the article. That’s strange. You might think the yield-management gurus would have the airlines rolling in dough. But that hasn’t happened. [...]

China’s iPhone deal: New Details Emerge

28, Jul 2009

The headlines out of China overnight Tuesday were headsnappers. First Shanghai Security News reported that Apple (AAPL) had reached a three-year deal with China Unicom to market the iPhone in the world’s largest cellphone market (600 million-plus subscribers). Then AFP and Reuters reported what China Unicom’s spokesperson told them: that the two companies were still [...]

China Blocks Access To Twitter, Facebook After Riots.

7, Jul 2009

Following last weekend’s deadly riots in its western region of Xinjiang, China’s central government has taken all the usual steps to block citizens from accessing foreign web services: aside from crippling Internet service in general, the authorities have blocked Twitter, removed unapproved references to the violence from search engines and has now apparently moved to [...]

Big Business Groups Complain to China’s Premier.

28, Jun 2009

BEIJING — An international group of business associations that includes most of the world’s major technology companies submitted a letter to Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao urging the government to scrap a requirement that personal computers come with Internet-filtering software. Associated Press A customer in Beijing shops for computers Thursday. China will soon require PCs to [...]

China Tries Out A Trojan Horse.

27, Jun 2009

In May, China told computer manufacturers that all personal computers sold in the country after July 1 must come installed with an anti-pornography software. A month later, it was forced to back down, telling PC users that use of the software – Green Dam-Youth Escort – would be optional. What the government had not anticipated [...]

Google China is Sued by Chinese Government, Stopped “Keyword Imagination” and “Foreign Language Searching”.

23, Jun 2009

If you have ever keep updated to the latest tech news about China recently, I’m sure you would know that Google China is being sued by the Chinese government. The solutions are stopping “Keyword Imagination” and “Foreign Language Searching”. What is this case all about? Firstly, I should state that it isn’t Google China’s fault. [...]

Google Tries Blocking Pornography In China.

19, Jun 2009

Google (NSDQ: GOOG) executives in China met with representatives of the Chinese government on Thursday “to discuss problems with the Google.cn service and its serving of pornographic images and content based on foreign language searches,” a company spokesperson confirmed Friday. According to a report from Xinhua, the government-run news agency, Chinese authorities began blocking certain [...]

Google’s censorship Struggles continue in China.

16, Jun 2009

On June 4, 2009, Google.cn blocked all searches for “Tiananmen Square,” even ones not related to the massacre that took place on that date in 1989. It refuses to say why. (Credit: Screenshot by Tom Krazit/CNET) Google was going to help democratize data in China. Instead, about three years after entering the Middle Kingdom, the [...]

El Mercado Chino: Riesgos y Oportunidades.

15, May 2009

Entrevista con el Ministro de Economía de la Ciudad occidental de China Ningbo, el Sr. Li Xinhua: Apesar de la crisis económica miles de expositores van a estar presentes este año en la octava Feria Internacional de Bienes de Condumo (CICGF) en Ningbo.  Del 8 hasta el 12 de junio de 2009 en la ciudad [...]


Newer Entries
top

Switch to our mobile site